Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer: Re-Treatment

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Linda Ding John G. Shoukry Roubil Kara Banson Abdulnasser Kalifeh Carla Bradford I-Lin Kuo Yankua Fan Fenghong Liu Suhong Lu Harry Bushe Jonathan Saleeby Camelia Bunaciu James Shen Kevin O’Connor Maryann Bishop Maureen Britton Shannon Higgins Julie Trifone Thomas Quinn Joshua Taylor Vijay Croos Bashera Nochomowitz TJ FitzGerald

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TJ FitzGerald
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

A B S T R A C T

Radiation therapy is an established form of therapy for breast cancer, often applied in an adjuvant setting delivered in a post-operative environment to volumes including the breast, surgical cavity, and regional lymph nodes when appropriate. Historically, radiation therapy has not been considered an option for care when the patient recurs with the disease despite being treated with radiation therapy in the adjuvant setting. However, there can be clinical circumstances that require a different approach to the care including comprehensive re-treatment with radiation therapy in highly selected situations. This paper reviewed two patients with clinical circumstances requiring consideration for re-treatment with radiation therapy and were successfully re-treated with an acceptable outcome.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 29, Apr 2021
Accepted: Thu 13, May 2021
Published: Thu 27, May 2021

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© 2023 TJ FitzGerald. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2021.05.07